by stevenpdennis | Jun 20, 2022 | Growth, Leadership
Target is the latest retailer to reveal that it bought too much stuff and will need to take aggressive action to get its inventory levels back in line. These moves will include cancelling orders and hitting a lot of products with the old markdown gun. CEO Brian...
by stevenpdennis | Apr 13, 2022 | Innovation, Leadership
Will the Metaverse radically transform your business over the next few years? Is the answer to your increasingly fragile customer relevance to move from being less format-centric to thinking about your operating system as more of a platform? Would a radical...
by stevenpdennis | Feb 9, 2022 | Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership
Perhaps you know about VUCA? It’s an acronym that stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. While it has its origins in military strategy, it is very much an apt description of the dynamic, often chaotic, world of retail today. And if...
by stevenpdennis | Jan 12, 2021 | Innovation, Leadership, Remarkable Retail
There are a few different ways people approach the ocean. Some dive right in. Others inch in slowly, testing the temperature of the water until they feel comfortable to wade in all the way. A few like to stand there and get pummeled by the water’s force. And of course...
by stevenpdennis | Dec 7, 2020 | Leadership
Did you immediately spot this old–and not especially good–joke? Or did you briefly stop to wonder if it could possibly be true, finally coming to your own conclusion that I must just be goofing around (as I am often wont to do)? Or did you say, hmm, that...
by stevenpdennis | Jul 17, 2020 | Being Remarkable, Innovation, Leadership
Oh sure, maybe we’re ready for the easy stuff. Ready to leave for work, make dinner, hop in a Lyft, do the laundry, pay the credit card bill. But the work that matters, that enlivens the spirit, that changes us, our tribes, and the world around us? That’s a whole...
